Vice Chancellor, Advancement

Vice Chancellor For Advancement

Reporting directly to the Chancellor and serving as a member of the Executive Management Council, the Vice Chancellor for Advancement provides strategic leadership for the University's comprehensive advancement program and serves as its chief philanthropic officer. The Vice Chancellor is responsible for developing and executing a bold vision for philanthropy that advances UMass Chan's mission, strategic priorities, and long-term aspirations.

Leading a talented advancement team, the Vice Chancellor will oversee all aspects of fundraising, alumni engagement, campaign strategy, donor relations, foundation and corporate engagement, advancement operations, and stewardship. They will drive the expansion of UMass Chan's reach by identifying, cultivating, and pursuing new donor relationships while deepening engagement with existing supporters. Working collaboratively with University leadership, faculty, academic departments, the University of Massachusetts Foundation, and partners across UMass Memorial Health, the Vice Chancellor will strengthen a culture of philanthropy, foster meaningful institutional partnerships, and elevate UMass Chan's philanthropic profile among regional, national, and international audiences.

The Vice Chancellor will leverage UMass Chan's extraordinary scientific, educational, and clinical accomplishments by connecting donors to the full continuum of discovery, education, clinical innovation, and community impact. This leader will help position philanthropy as a strategic driver of institutional priorities, not simply a means of funding them. Success will be measured not only by philanthropic results, but by the ability to build organizational capacity, inspire institutional confidence, and position Advancement as one of the University's most trusted strategic partners.

This leader will be instrumental in strengthening alignment with leaders across UMass Memorial Health to explore shared philanthropic opportunities and create a seamless donor experience.

The ideal candidate will bring a minimum of eight years of fundraising leadership experience, preferably in a global and/or healthcare organization, as well as the proven ability to diversify and expand philanthropic pipelines at a national scale. A motivated self-starter, this leader will thrive in entrepreneurial environments poised for tremendous growth.

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute a comprehensive advancement strategy aligned with the University's mission, vision, and strategic priorities.
• Serve as the University's chief advancement strategist and trusted advisor to the Chancellor on philanthropic opportunities and donor engagement.
• Foster a culture of philanthropy that engages faculty, academic leadership, trustees, volunteers, alumni, grateful patients, corporations, foundations, and community partners.

Fundraising & Donor Engagement

• Lead all aspects of comprehensive fundraising, including annual giving, major gifts, principal gifts, planned giving, corporate and foundation relations, grateful patient philanthropy, and future campaign planning.
• Personally lead the identification, cultivation, pursuit, solicitation, and stewardship of a portfolio of the University's most significant philanthropic relationships, demonstrating initiative in identifying, engaging, and securing new donors whose interests align with UMass Chan's aspirations.
• Proactively identify, qualify, and engage new individual, corporate, and foundation prospects to grow UMass Chan's philanthropic pipeline and position the institution within new networks of philanthropic influence.

Organizational Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing advancement organization built upon collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen advancement infrastructure, technology, reporting, and analytics to support strategic decision-making and organizational effectiveness.
• Establish clear goals, performance expectations, and measurable outcomes across the advancement enterprise.

Partnership & Institutional Engagement

• Establish trusted partnerships with faculty, researchers,…